Re: [PULL] virtio/vhost: cross endian support

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On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Doing a unconditional byte swap is faster and simpler than the crazy
> conditionals.

Unconditional endianness not only makes for simpler and faster code,
it also ends up being easier to debug and add things like type
annotations for sparse.

                Linus
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